Blog 7: Themed Post n°3: "THE STRIKE!

HI Guys:

Online, we have decided today to write about the strike we are facing at the moment.

Today's free topic is:

"The Strike": (230 words)

- talk about how you can help chilean education, 

- state your opinion about the effectiveness of the way of putting pressure in the stikes and say how you would improve it

* Don't forget to write 3 comments on your classmates' blogs and 1 on mine.

Cheers!

ps. Videos received until today 27-05, 16:00 hrs.

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Example:

I believe education needs a real change and I am really glad that during the past 10 years, as a society, we are discussing and deeply reflecting over educational issues that are affecting our future. In this sense, considering the work for the future, my distinctive revolutionary starting point is when I decided that a real change to education would be made from within the classroom environment, I believe the only real and concrete way of enriching the discussion and stimulation a fine education for the future lies in the daily job of a teacher. A teacher with his/her teaching can guide students towards transformation of nowadays reality and in order to do so, education must have an aim to it.

Many people think and also have decided that marching, striking and let their voices be hears is the most effective way of presenting problems, call upon social awareness and deepening and also, they see this atittude (striking) to be the real path to a change although they have forgotten that a plain march will not change the attitutes and beliefs of future generations. I believe striking and marching are great and profitable ways of moving people's minds but I strongly think that all the moevent does not reinforce "awakening" of society. I believe guidance is needed and for it, we have teachers and students. If both are committed to a change, they can reach it and sustain itin the future.

I believe in not too much time, tha changes will be concretely seen, but if students miss too much of their learning opportunities, I think the future will not have been constructed upon solid foundations.

LEVEL 4 - POST 6 - POSTGRADUATE STUDIES (WEEK 8)

Write about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future (220 words)
Include:

- Reasons to do the course
- Subject(s) you would like to studyi
- Where you would like to study (Chile or abroad)
- How you would like to study (distance learning, blended system, part-time course, etc)
- Any other relevant ideas

For the time being I am a bit overwhealmed with projects so I do not see any chance of coming back to uni to pursue a postgraduate degree.

However, in the future I would like to take up on a postgraduate course on Multilinguism and Language Planning, because I believe the future of our nation will need people prepared to do research on the topic of how the establishment will allow languages to coexist or will make them extinguish.

Language Planning is a field within Applied Linguistics, it is a conscious effort to propel the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community, it includes government planning, but is also used in a wide range of non-governmental organisations. The goals are diverse but it concentrates mostly on making planning decisions and possibly changes for the benefit of communication.

The is a course I really like which is an integrated programme between The Netherlands and Barcelona in Spain. I’d love to take it there because those are country where multilingualism is a vivid reality.

In the future I think migration and immigration will be situations that will impose new challenges on Chilean society and one of the dimensions for this challenging opportunities to materialize will be Languages and Communication.

ONLINE CONNECTION 20-05 14:30-16:00 HRS

LEVEL 4 - POST 6 - POSTGRADUATE STUDIES (WEEK 8)

Dear All:

I am very glad you could make it for our online "on strike" blog session.

For those of you who connected, I will be giving some personal feedback and for all the rest, you must upload this blog session on time!

Today's topic:

Write about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future.
Include:

- Reasons to do the course
- Subject(s) you would like to study
- Where you would like to study (Chile or abroad)
- How you would like to study (distance learning, blended system, part-time course, etc)
- Any other relevant ideas

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post.

- Word Count: 220 words

MY EXAMPLE WILL BE UPLOADED WITHING THE HOUR.

CHEERS A LOT!

ACUERDOS POR PARO

INTRUCTION VIDEO 2 AND BLOGS

INTRUCTION VIDEO 2 AND BLOGS

Dear all:

The following video is due to next week, however, given that I had very few students today, we have decided to put off the deadline for wednesday 25th May, at the start of the class. The evaluation will be done upon the criteria presented in the previous video activity.

INSTRUCTIONS VIDEO #2 (25-05-2016, 14:30) :

Record a 2 minute mobile phone video presentation* about a journey you would like to make in the future.

Say:

Where you would like to go,

Who you would go with,

Why you would like to make this journey,

What things you would like to do on the journey.

Mention anything else you think is important.

A mobile phone video presentation is a video of the student talking directly to the camera. This activity is seen as part of the learning process. Videos are made in the students’ own time and they are free to practice and record as many versions as they see fit in order to complete the task. However, the final video must be in one take (i.e. they must not be edited). Moreover, you should be able to see the student clearly in the video (i.e. No sunglasses!). If you think that the text is being read you can arrange for the student to re-record it or repeat the talk in class. Please make students aware of this fact.

INSTRUCTIONS BLOG:

Next class all the blogs must be uploaded and in class we will work with blog 6 (Post-Graduate Studies) and blog 7 which is a topic we will have to decide on. Have a lovely week!

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ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED THE CLASS ON FRIDAY 13th MUST SEND ME (prof.masias@gmail.com):

 

1- PODCAST SCRIPT IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH (about the benefits of learning foreign languages, benefits from science and affective perspectives and NOT the professional, commercial, mercantilistic perspective)

 

2- RECORDINGS (mp3 files, both your voices in english and spanish and the interviews in spanish)

3- Send it all to prof.masias@gmail.com today to be considered present in the previous session.

Post 5- My Future Job

Post 5- My Future Job

Post 5- 

My Future Job 

- What kind of job would you like to have? How do you imagine it?

- In an office?

- Outdoors /indoors?

- Would you like to travel a lot in your job?

- What major are you studying / are you thinking of taking?    Explain why

- Add any other related ideas.

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts

- Word Count: 210 words

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I studied English Linguistics, and I always thought "what would my future job be?". And here I am!!

I wanted to have a fun, light, easy going and not too hard to do job, but always wanted to be with people.

From all the many areas I could work in, I always wanted something neither too-much outdoors nor indoors, furthermore I wanted something that would produce some kind of social change, a good important and deep change.

In other matters, I wanted to travel, to see the world, to meet strange people, well... strange meaning, different than me and my friends and family. With teaching languages, I have been able to do all the former, which leads me to think it was the right choice.

I tried working in an office once, in a job that was not as stressful as a teacher's job but after a year, and after missing the classrooms a lot, I decided to go back to stressful, challenging but rewarding teaching.

Nowadays, I am thinking on taking up on PHD studies in the field of Applied Linguistics, I would like to do it either in the Netherlands, Switzerland and/or England. 

I would like to do it in those countries, well, in the two first ones because they have a long history of successful multilingualism and because they are definitely good at languages. England on the other hand, would be my last choice, and this is because of a fact that gave birth to a joke, that is, - and please, no offense-, but the joke says: "how do you call a person who speaks only one language? […] you call them British"...LOL

Post 4: Themed Post: The Best Party of My Life

THE BEST PARTY EVER!

- Comments: leave a comment on my post + 3 of your classmates posts.
- Word Count for post 4: 200 words



This is a picture of a party which I consider to be one of the best I've had in all my life and even though there have been some very few ones, this one of the several I keep in my mind.

It was the 2008 and some friends suggested we should all go to this Halloween Party in couples, which we thought was a great idea and started organizing the couples. In the picture I am with one of my best friends from that time.

We had great fun, some of us disguised as Cinderella and The Prince, others as The Crazy Adams, and so and so. All the rest of the guests were also wearing fancy dresses and the glamour was something you could notice!, people made their best effort.

Than night the party finished quite late not in the early morning necessarily, but still, at around 5. Some of my friends left in the middle of the party because they were not party people but most of us stayed until the end but we were all too hungry to go home straight away so, as usual, we went for something to eat, the typical nasty, greasy, tasty, late night kind of food. We ate, and we went to bed exhausted, it had been a really great night.